What age to let toddlers sleep with a pillow?

[briannesmom]

My DD is almost 2 ½ and sleeps in a toddler bed without a pillow. We are thinking of getting a “big girl” bed for her for Christmas. What age do you let them start sleeping with a pillow? I assume she is old enough, just wondered what everyone else thought. I asked my SIL the other day (her DD is 2 months older than mine) and she has had one since she turned one.

Thanks,
Amy

 

[aprilgail2]

My daughter was about a year old when she started using one...

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I think your daughter will be fine.

We got big girl beds last summer when the youngest wasn't quite 2 yet. I did start her out with a flat pillow though. Nothing too big and fluffy.

 

[yeartolate]

My son was closer to three before he used one. Until that time he slept in the butt up with head cocked to the side position. Not conducive to pillows.

 

[skuttle]

DS has been using a travel pillow since he turned 2 in July. The travel pillow is a great size for him. He's still in his crib...has never tried to climb out so we haven't converted his bed.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

When they were out of the crib is when they got a pillow.

 

[Skylarr29]

We put a pillow in the crib since they were a few months old BUT the pillow is under the fitted sheet so it just make a small elevated hump!! The 16 month old still has it like that and the 2 year old has a regular pillow in a big girl bed.

 

[Karel]

My daughter didn't have a pillow until she was at least three. It was never an issue and we really didn't think about it.
She's such a restless sleeper that she never really uses it now i.e. her head is never on it.

 

[Aidensmom]

We started using a pillow when my son asked for one, he was about 2.

 

[DisneyPhD]

I can't remember when we gave my oldest a pillow. I remember she could talk, but then again she was a really early taker so I am guessing sometime in her 2nd year of life.

I put a pillow in my youngest crib this summer when she was a year old. A flat one and it was mostly to elevate her because she was congested.

She slept so much better. It really helped in a lot of ways. She has always hated her crib. She is fine with it now.

I would start with a flat one, not a feather one!

 

[LoveWDW]

We got our boys pillows when they started with sinus problems, the pillow helped the drainage. I don't know that I'd use a pillow except for that.

 

[tiggerlover]

DS got a pillow when he moved from a crib to a twin bed, he was 2 years, 2 months old.

 

[Samandmom]

I believe my son was almost 1. We got the hint when everynight he bunched up his sheet for a pillow.
With my daughter I believe she was a little over 1. We gave her my sons old flattened pillow and DS got a new one.

 

[Denine]

We just gave DD a pillow last night. She is 3 years and 2 months. She is a very restless sleeper.

 

[Bob Slydell]

When DS moved into his bed, he got a pillow. Doesn't matter, he still rarely ends up on it by the end of the night.